Nvidia
Nvidia introduced an absolute beast of a video card today. The GeForce 8800 GTX can run infinity at 100 fps at 2048x1536 and all settings on high.Well, infinity not including Oblivion, of course.
Seriously, it's fast. Almost as fast as two 7900 GTX cards in SLI.
It's also huge and expensive, and has two power connectors.
Here are some review links:
Extreme Tech.
Tweak Town.
Tom's Hardware
Also, Nvidia announced the 600i chipset for Intel processors. Here's an excerpt from an article over at Daily Tech:
The new nForce 600i family spawns three new products—the nForce 680i SLI, 650i SLI and 650i Ultra. The three chipsets will target hardcore enthusiasts, performance gamers and mainstream gamers respectively. With the nForce 600i chipset family, NVIDIA has adopted a new naming scheme to differentiate its Intel and AMD products. Beginning with the nForce 600i family, NVIDIA chipsets will have “i” designations for Intel chipsets and “a” designations for AMD variants.
For hardcore enthusiasts NVIDIA has the nForce 680i SLI. It features compatibility with Intel Core 2 Extreme, Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo, Celeron D, Pentium 4 and Pentium D processors. There’s also plenty of headroom with the nForce 680i SLI too. NVIDIA has engineered the nForce 680i SLI to run at a 1333 MHz front-side bus for future processor compatibility and overclocking headroom.
A motherboard based on the 680i is probably what I'm going to use for the system I'm building. I expected to have the system completed by now, but I seem to be hanging on by my fingernails most days, and I know the idea of "hurrying" while I build a system is a recipe for complete disaster, so I've put it off for at least a little while.
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